It's difficult to figure out what it is, exactly, that defines our happiness. Is it our careers? Our relationships? How hungry we are? Well, one thing's for sure: We tend to blame our level of happiness, quite often, on our location.

"Ugh, it's so gray here."

"How is it snowing, again?"

"I got shoved on the subway today."

I'm sure, at this point, you can guess where I live.

Anyway, a new study from Gallup-Healthways tried to determine the happiest and healthiest states in the country by analyzing over 176,000 interviews with people across the country during 2014. Interviewees were asked questions that assess their feelings about five different aspects of well-being: purpose, social, financial, community, and physical. These questions measure specific things such how safe people feel where they live or how motivated they are to follow their dreams.

Apparently, Alaskans are killing it (as they have for the past four years), while West Virginians are down in the dumps.